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Updated: June 15, 2025
Why do they not see, as my husband does, that it is for want of personal ambition that L'Ouverture is now an outlaw in the mornes, instead of being hand-in-hand, as a brother king, with George of England? They might have known whom to honour and whom to restrain, as my husband does, if they had had his clearness of soul, and his love of freedom."
I shall go with Afra to the cacao-gathering at Le Zephyr, as I did last year. Oh, that sweet cool place in the Mornes du Chaos! How different from this great ugly square white convent, with nothing that looks cheerful, and nothing to be heard but teaching, teaching, and religion, religion, for ever."
"Do not you see, Henri, that you not only cease to aid me at a great crisis but that you put a force upon me?" "I cannot help it; I must do so, rather than go and be a butcher in the mornes with Dessalines." "Say with me, too: call me a butcher, too! After the long years that you have known my heart, call me a butcher too." "Let us talk sense, Toussaint: this is no time for trifling.
"I remember my words perfectly; and that they referred to my choice of a post in the mornes, and a retreat for my family affairs long since made public enough. What else do you suppose you saw and heard? If I spoke of depositing my treasures in the mornes, I was doubtless speaking of my household. Did you understand me to mean gold and silver? What was it that you suppose you saw and heard?"
Let the name and deeds I now leave behind be a pride to generations yet to come a more innocent pride than they have sometimes, alas! been to me. I have done with them." Toussaint had often known what hunger was in the mornes he had endured it almost to extremity.
Yet the people who live upon the mornes, those for instance which are drained by Trois-Rivières in the northwestern part of the island, are healthier and plumper, and the Creoles have a fresher look, than the inhabitants of the plains. In the still more elevated regions the cold is frequently so great that people do not like to live there.
Meantime, the party rode proudly on, through the interior of the island, signs of welcome spreading around them at every step. From the grass-farms, in the wide savannahs, the herdsmen hastened, with promises to drive their flocks up into the mornes, where no enemy should penetrate while a man remained to guard the passes.
We shall only mention as among the principal points to be occupied, with the mornes of Cape Rouge, Portudal, Joal, and Cahone, this last on the river Salum near the Gambia; they are large villages, the environs of which are covered with magnificent forests, and the soil of which is perhaps the most fertile of any in Africa.
The one chosen this day was his friend Raymond's cacao-plantation, Le Zephyr, in the Mornes du Chaos among the mountains which retired above the light bank of the Artibonite. It was a spacious mansion, sheltered from storms, but enjoying a pleasant mountain air the most wholesome that could be found, if the retreat should continue through the hot season.
"It would have been, if he had asked for it. He probably knows that I had rather have seen him high in honour and function under Leclerc, than an outlaw, entrenched in the mornes." "Then why are you here?" "I am here to protect those who cannot protect themselves, in these rough times.
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